It's the latest move in Russia's current anti-gay backlash that has led to laws allowing judges to jail people for 'promoting' homosexuality and is broadening a rift with Western nations over gay rights.

Charleigh Disbrey’s father Matthew Disbrey, and mother, Sandie Barnes said: 'We will never fill the hole that has been left in our hearts', after she was fatally struck by a train in Hertfordshire on Monday.

The Roma gypsies are showing no sign of leaving their patch of grass in the exclusive neighbourhood. Traders in the area say they are being forced to keep their stock in full sight for fear of it being swiped by the travellers.

CNN has compiled a list of the world's five best boatels in the world, and the list includes a former submarine, a retired luxury liner and a boat used to carry immigrants from Ellis Island into New York itself.